“I was caught between a muscular puma and an enormous, agitated serpent. This was far from ideal.”

Wara abruptly halted. Her cushion-sized paws were firmly planted in the leaf litter and the great muscles in her forelegs were rippling. Her ears, with their distinctive white markings, stood to attention as she focused on what appeared to be nothing more than a motionless tree. I appealed to her to move on as we […]